Walter Taylor (engineer)
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Walter Taylor (engineer)
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Walter Taylor (1734–1803) of Southampton, supplied wooden rigging blocks and ship's pumps to the Royal Navy, greatly improving their quality and reliability via technological innovations which were a significant step forward in the Industrial Revolution. Walter Taylor was born in 1734 the son of Walter Taylor of Southampton, an ingenious ship's carpenter, and Elizabeth Silver of Whippingham, Isle of Wight.
From the age of 14 Taylor served as an apprentice to a Mr Messer, a ship's block maker in
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